Broken Iron Clothes

=====================

Jiang Yu was so drunk that she insisted on going back to Jiang Zhai alone. At this time, Zhong Dingshan was worried and called someone to drive over from Jiang Zhai. Jiang Shiqing put him in the car and left alone in Huimei Courtyard to clean up.

The plum petals fell to the ground with the wind, he stepped lightly on the shattered red on the ground, put away the empty altar, but saw the red paper pressed under the altar.

He lifted the wine jar and took out the red paper, and gently rubbed the copper plate through the paper, trying to cool down the heat in his chest.

There was another sound of reining in the horse outside the door.

Guessing that it was probably someone from the Jiang residence again, he put the red paper in his arms and went to open the door.Unexpectedly, before his hand touched the door panel, there was a soft sound coming from behind him, causing him to raise his eyes instantly.

"People are here, the door doesn't need to be opened."

The man's voice was clear in the small courtyard. Jiang Shiqing recognized who it was, his eyes dimmed, and he turned around slowly.

Yuan Mucheng walked over from the courtyard wall and said, "Huai Chuan, why didn't you call me for stealing a good wine?"

"Why are you here?" Jiang Shiqing walked towards the person slowly, with a cold expression.

Yuan Mucheng stretched out his fingers to poke the red petals blooming on the ice branch, and sniffed the plum fragrance stained on his fingertips, and said calmly, "Maybe you hide it, but I'm not allowed to look for it."

Jiang Shiqing ignored him, wrapped his cloak and walked to the stone table and sat down, saying: "The general is also a strange person, he won't go to the banquet on New Year's Eve, and won't go back to the palace, so why is he so focused on me?"

Hearing this, Yuan Mucheng looked around and walked towards the stone table.

There is only one courtyard and a row of houses in Huimei Courtyard. The main room is used as the bedroom, and the two sides are the kitchen room and the study room, and each room is connected by a corridor.At this time, a row of bright lamps hanging under the porch illuminated the courtyard slightly, and lights were also lit in the house, and the candles flickered faintly through the windows.

He went to the table and sat down, and said: "We Huaichuan are also strange people, we don't stay in the big house on New Year's Eve, why are we staying alone in this remote courtyard?"

Jiang Shiqing raised his eyes and asked, "How did you find this place?"

Yuan Mucheng smiled, took a jug of wine from the table, and said: "Thinking that someone is still owed wine, I feel uneasy, and came here following the smell of wine."

As soon as the altar was opened, the smell of Tieyi wine rushed out, making Yuan Mucheng feel as if he was in a military tent, but before he had time to reminisce, he was suddenly awakened by Meixiang.

"Aren't you feeling unwell, why do you drink such strong wine?" Yuan Mucheng asked.

Jiang Shiqing said: "I can't drink it, can't the general drink it?"

Yuan Mucheng held the jar full of wine with one hand and drank it up, drowning half of his grievances.He felt very clearly that what was overflowing between his lips and teeth at this moment was the taste of Yuzhou, that land had been sprinkled with the blood of Xuanhe Army, and his relatives were guarding that camp.

Jiang Shiqing saw that his Adam's apple was rolling up and down for a long time, and he was about to drink most of the wine in the altar, and said with a smile: "If you trust me so much, are you afraid that the wine may be poisonous?"

Hearing this, Yuan Mucheng finally let go of the wine jar, and said cruelly with a smile: "Is there any snake venom in your stomach? If so, I will drag you to be buried with you when you die."

Jiang Shiqing frowned lightly: "So fierce, it seems that this heart can't be reconciled."

"You are on good terms with everyone, how do I know if your heart is with me?" Yuan Mucheng said.

Jiang Shiqing looked back, and said softly: "The Huai River and the mountains are inherently impermanent, and those who are idle will be the masters."

Yuan Mucheng leaned over slightly, and said, "Then look, am I an idler?"

Jiang Shiqing bent his eyes and said with a smile, "Who knows."

Yuan Mucheng stared at him for a moment, then let out a quick laugh, then touched the cold wine jar and said, "I thought I wouldn't be able to taste this wine after I came to the city."

Seeing the man drinking again, Jiang Shiqing said softly: "Not happy."

Yuan Mucheng removed the jar and asked, "What?"

Jiang Shiqing said flatly: "Look at you, you are not enjoying being a general."

Yuan Mucheng put his elbows on the edge of the table with great interest, and looked at Jiang Shiqing carefully.

"Tell me."

"I don't like poking people where they hurt." Jiang Shiqing rolled his eyes.

"Don't you want to have a heart-to-heart relationship? I don't mind if you stab me with a knife."

Jiang Shiqing glanced at the table, raised his eyes and wondered: "Well... there is only wine tonight, but no knife, what should I do?"

The wind rolled up the velvet on the cloak, and the white snow hugged Jiang Shiqing's neck, making this man look like a plum as white as auspicious snow, condensed alone in a piece of red, simple and elegant but full of fragrance.

Probably because of the heat from the simmering spirits, Yuan Mucheng always felt that there was a fire burning in his belly when he looked at him, so he opened his eyes sideways and blew the cold wind to calm down a little.

After a while, Yuan Mucheng said: "In front of the Yuzhou camp, there are the Balang and Wusen tribes, and behind the Yuzhou city. I also rely on this iron coat wine to keep warm. However, strong wine can be drunk, but you must drink it carefully, do you know why?"

Jiang Shiqing said: "The Yuzhou camp is the iron armor protecting the northern border, and it is also the only line of defense in the Yuzhou. Wars may break out at any time, and soldiers cannot fall."

"That's right, everyone sleeps with their eyelids open every night, and they want to drink to their heart's content, just like being disarmed and returning to the fields. They can't look forward to it." Yuan Mucheng shook the wine in his hand and poured it into his mouth again.

"In Keja City, you can't look forward to it, you can't get drunk." Jiang Shiqing said.

Yuan Mucheng paused, and said: "In Yuzhou, you fight to the death, and in Yancheng, you play with people's hearts and ghosts. I can't get drunk, I obviously don't dare to get drunk."

"Do you dare to get drunk tonight?" Jiang Shiqing asked suddenly.

Yuan Mucheng turned his head to look at him and said, "Do you dare to kill me tonight?"

"Dare, but I won't." Jiang Shiqing answered calmly.

Yuan Mucheng slightly hooked the corners of his lips: "Do you dare to kill me?"

"You dare to kill me, don't you?"

Yuan Mucheng imitated his tone, and replied: "Dare, but not."

The two laughed at the same time, and the plum petals fluttering in the wind swept across their bodies, creating a burst of fragrance again.

Yuan Mucheng blew away a petal that was stuck on the mouth of the bottle, and said, "I'm the one talking about heart-to-heart talk, it's not fair, it's your turn."

Jiang Shiqing asked, "What do you want to hear?"

"I want to hear a lot, why don't you just tell me about the injury on your right neck, and the reason why you have avoided seeing it these days, or," Yuan Mucheng said in a deep voice, "tell me, who are you."

"Your person." Jiang Shiqing twirled the petals that fell on the back of his hand just now, and replied unhurriedly.

"The truth?" Yuan Mucheng asked.

Jiang Shiqing raised his eyes and said, "The truth."

Yuan Mucheng said with a cold face, half a smile but not a smile: "This must be made clear, my people will not avoid me for three days, half-pushing me half-heartedly, turning around and talking and laughing with other men."

Hearing these words was a bit strange, Jiang Shiqing immediately laughed: "General Yi is in his prime but he doesn't have a woman by his side, even if his desire is hard to get rid of, he shouldn't have come to me."

Yuan Mucheng's heart was shaken, his ears were burned by these words, he coughed lightly before answering: "I didn't mean that, in short, you have kept a lot of things from me, and your heart is not sincere enough, you, Mr. Yuan, are not happy."

"What I'm telling is the truth," Jiang Shiqing loosened his fingers, watched the petals he twirled just now fluttering down, and said, "If you don't believe me, what can I do?"

Yuan Mucheng didn't answer, just sat and watched him like this, the anger in his stomach not only didn't go out, on the contrary, it flared up a lot.

Jiang Shiqing knocked on the altar with his fingers, and asked, "Do you still drink the wine?"

Yuan Mucheng snorted, lifted the wine jar and poured it down his throat in revenge.

He was just a little thirsty, but the more he drank the wine today, the more thirsty he became, and the enthusiasm in his mind couldn't be subsided, and he was getting more and more burned by the wine.

Jiang Shiqing was watching him, but what he saw was a trapped beast that gave up struggling and was demonstrating.

It seems that the wine was not drunk enough.

-

The empty altar was kicked all over the ground, and the ground was hit in circles mixed with the smell of alcohol.

Yuan Mucheng had just had a drunken scene, and Jiang Shiqing was currently carrying the man's arm to bring him into the house, but Yuan Mucheng was too heavy, and his body like a branding iron was hard and scorching hot, and it just pressed half of his body.

Jiang Shiqing dragged people in, but Yuan Mucheng tilted his head and breathed in his ear, saying harsh words.

"Jiang Huaichuan, sometimes when I see you, I really hate it. I want to bite your throat open to see how true and how false every time you run out from there," Yuan Mucheng narrowed his eyes dangerously, On his right neck, he said harshly, "If it's all fake, I'll bite off your neck myself."

Jiang Shiqing tilted his head and asked, "Are you a dog?"

Yuan Mucheng snorted, got up his strength, raised his palm and twisted it across Jiang Shiqing's chin, and said fiercely, "You called me a dog?"

Jiang Shiqing pushed that hand away, and said coldly, "Shut up, I won't stop you if you want to sleep outside, and don't ask me for money for medicine if you're sick."

Hearing this, Yuan Mucheng pulled back his strength instantly, put his body forward consciously, and said, "You can't be sick. If you're sick, you won't be able to fight. You take me in, take me in..."

After a hard fight, Jiang Shiqing finally threw the man onto the couch, but before he could catch his breath, someone came through the door behind him. He turned his head and saw that the man was Ji Dong.

"Ji Dong?"

Ji Dong put down a basket of charcoal, looked at the two with some surprise, and said, "Master Jiang, Mr. Lin Meng asked me to bring you some charcoal, but this person is..."

"It's just in time. You watch him here. I'll go to Prince Jingping's mansion to look for someone, and I'll be back in a while."

As he spoke, Jiang Shiqing turned around, and when he was walking, his waist suddenly sank.

"If you dare to leave, I'll make you regret it immediately." Yuan Mucheng locked his waist tightly, with increasing strength, without leaving any room for words, "Jiang Huaichuan, you'd better not mess with me."

Ji Dong took a look, quickly waved his hands, and said, "Don't, don't, I'll go, he's so fierce when he's drunk, I'm afraid to stay with him..."

Jiang Shiqing couldn't pull those hands away in a daze, so he sighed and said, "Okay, you go to Prince Jingping's mansion to find a man named He Xiao, tell him that Yuan Mucheng is drunk, and then let him come and take him away. Be careful."

"remember!"

After Ji Dong left, Jiang Shiqing took a lot of effort to escape.After laying Yuan Mucheng flat on the bed, he covered him with a quilt before turning around and going to the yard to tidy up.

But as soon as Yuan Mucheng left, he opened his mouth and yelled again, and when he couldn't hear a response, he yelled louder.

"Jianghuai River, Jianghuai River! Jianghuai River—"

Jiang Shiqing just collected the family letters scattered all over the place, and he was called back to the house helplessly.

"I'm not deaf." Jiang Shiqing said standing by the door.

Yuan Mucheng saw the figure in a daze, he waved and said, "Come here."

Just now after Yuan Mucheng was drunk, he was holding up the family letter he took out from his arms and reading wildly, and he was pulling Jiang Shiqing fiercely. The commotion in the courtyard had already given Jiang Shiqing a headache, and now that he was finally able to calm down, Jiang Shiqing had no choice but to go along with him first. , and walked to the couch.

Just now, Jiang Shiqing took off Yuan Mucheng's robe after drinking half of his body, leaving only the middle coat, but Yuan Mucheng was sweating from boredom, and he pulled his collar halfway, so he was lying disheveled at this time. Between the quilts, he raised his neck and panted.

Hearing a sound beside the bed, Yuan Mucheng opened his eyes that were drenched with alcohol and stared straight at the person.

Half of Jiang Shiqing's body was glowing with candlelight, and his face was softened. Even though his expression was lonely and cold like pure white frost and snow, he was not alienated, but like a glacier that was about to melt, it could flow straight to the hearts of others after being melted. .

It's really beautiful.

As Yuan Mucheng thought in his heart, he panicked even more.

Jiang Shiqing felt uncomfortable after being stared at like this for a while, but couldn't figure out what Yuan Mucheng was going to do, so he moved his eyes away.

Seeing that he was looking away, Yuan Mucheng wanted to reach out to touch him, but Jiang Shiqing put his hand behind his back and slightly staggered the man's fingertips.Unexpectedly, Yuan Mucheng was really irritated by such a dodging action of his, so he simply pulled the man's arm and wrapped it in his arms.

The arm was pulled suddenly, Jiang Shiqing fell to the side of the bed, half of his body fell on Yuan Mucheng's shoulder.

"Hiding for what?" Yuan Mucheng said harshly.

Jiang Shiqing was burned by that body, but when he looked sideways, he met the same burning eyes, so he propped himself up and raised his hands to cover the man's overly explicit gaze, and said in a low voice, "Sleep."

After a moment of silence, it seemed that the person had fallen asleep, so Jiang Shiqing took out the folded family letter from his bosom with his free hand, pressed it under the person's pillow, and then carefully pulled his arm away.

Yuan Mucheng felt that the man's arm was taking off, he felt anxious, clasped the wrist with both hands, opened his mouth and bit down.

Jiang Shiqing snorted and let him bite.The flesh was torn open by the tip of the teeth, blood oozing out, and the fishy smell spilled out along the gap between the teeth and the tip of the tongue into Yuan Mucheng's mouth. He tasted the fishy sweetness and licked again before letting go, and opened his eyes to look at Jiang Shiqing who was bitten painfully.

"Are you a dog?" Jiang Shiqing said angrily.

Yuan Mucheng propped his red eyes, and pulled that hand in front of him in a jerk.

After locking that arm, he looked at the man in front of him triumphantly and fiercely, and said, "I will bite once you walk."

--------------------

"Huaishui, rivers and mountains are inherently impermanent, and those who are idle are the masters." Adapted from Su Shi's "Lingao Leisurely Title", the original sentence: "The wind and moon in the mountains and rivers are inherently impermanent, and those who are idle are the masters."